(Citation Needed) – SYNOPSIS: Colonel (Corps of Engineers) Joe Harry Sheard, United States Army, was awarded a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a Second Award of the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States as Commanding Officer, 554th Engineer Construction Battalion, and Headquarters, Army Construction Agency, in the Republic of Vietnam, from 1968 to 1969.